Gaddi H Vasquez

Gaddi H. Vasquez, a Southern California Edison executive who quit the Orange County Board of Supervisors during the bankruptcy scandal of the mid-1990s, is President Bush's nominee as director of the Peace Corps, the White House announced Wednesday. The announcement came a month after Vasquez, 46, underwent heart-bypass surgery when a routine medical checkup discovered a blockage. "I'm honored to be nominated by the president," Vasquez said Wednesday at his home in Orange.

After only three months on the job, former Orange County Supervisor Gaddi H. Vasquez is leaving an executive position with Southern California Edison to become a beat cop in Orange. Vasquez will officially leave his Edison post as division vice president Jan. 31, and is expected to be sworn in as a police officer in early February, according to Orange Police Chief John R. Robertson.

After only three months on the job, former Orange County Board of Supervisors Chairman Gaddi H. Vasquez is leaving an executive position with Southern California Edison to become a beat cop in Orange. Vasquez will officially leave his Edison post as division vice president Jan. 31, and is expected to be sworn in as a police officer in early February, Orange Police Chief John R. Robertson said.

Former County Board of Supervisors Chairman Gaddi H. Vasquez is taking a job with Southern California Edison after backing away from an earlier commitment to join the Orange Police Department, officials said Thursday. "I'm looking forward to it," said Vasquez, who starts next week as a division vice president for public affairs and will often be working in Orange County. "I think this is a very important public service."

Former Orange County Supervisor Gaddi H. Vasquez, whose once-promising political career was tarnished by the county's bankruptcy, is considering joining the Orange Police Department as a patrol officer, officials said Thursday. Though some city and police officials were under the impression that Vasquez had already accepted the position and would be sworn in Monday, Vasquez denied he has agreed to take the job.

Collecting a last few personal items--a portrait of himself, a photo of his wife and teen-age son--Orange County Supervisor Gaddi H. Vasquez formally left office Wednesday, his future uncertain for the first time since he entered government service 15 years ago.

Marking his last meeting as 3rd District supervisor and chairman of the board, Gaddi H. Vasquez choked back the tears Tuesday as he said goodby to his friends and colleagues and offered best wishes to the county. Vasquez, who leaves office at 5 p.m. today, resigned earlier this year, citing the toll of the county's bankruptcy and his desire to spend more time with his family.

In a parting gesture of support for Orange County's sheriff and district attorney, outgoing Board of Supervisors Chairman Gaddi H. Vasquez said Tuesday he will introduce a policy to safeguard the two agencies from any future raids on their funding.

Orange County Supervisor Gaddi H. Vasquez says he'll be gone by the end of next month. Gov. Pete Wilson is already pondering his replacement. But all that doesn't matter to a group of Fullerton anti-tax activists who are still plowing forward with a recall effort to oust Vasquez from office. Why? The handful of vocal critics fear Vasquez's resignation might be part of a calculated conspiracy.

He's been trying to hold it at arm's length for months now, but it just keeps jumping back in his lap. Like it or not, Gov. Pete Wilson's future has been bedeviled by Orange County's lingering bankruptcy woes. Now the Republican governor faces his most ticklish task yet--whom to appoint to replace Gaddi H. Vasquez, the Orange County Board of Supervisors chairman who announced his resignation earlier this week.